Monthly Archives: November 2011

Fuck Movember

Posted on November 30, 2011 by thevenerablecorvex

Well, November is now drawing to a close, and I therefore feel that now is a good time to confess a terrible secret: I hate Movember. Maybe it’s the shear abundance of handlebars; maybe it’s having to endure the sight … Continue reading →

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An Outing

Posted on November 29, 2011 by thevenerablecorvex

You may have noticed by this point the lengths to which I have gone to obscure my gender as the author of this blog. This is not because I am naturally inclined towards being secretive (or at least, not primarily … Continue reading →

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Dumb Name, Awesome Concept (II)

Posted on November 29, 2011 by thevenerablecorvex

I know that this is a bit of a dumb thing to bitch about, but I really wish that Leon M. Lederman and Dick Teresi had chosen to name their famous book on the Higgs boson something other than “The … Continue reading →

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Oh, Go Away Gavin Menzies!

Posted on November 29, 2011 by thevenerablecorvex

Some of you may recall the high and hedy days of 2002 when Gavin Menzies first book, 1421: The Year China Discovered the World came out. This one (as its title would imply) was premised upon the idea that the … Continue reading →

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If I Had a Hammer (which I do)…

Posted on November 26, 2011 by thevenerablecorvex

I believe that I mentioned in my profile that I am mildly autistic. I was only diagnosed as being on the spectrum a few months ago, as it was never really all that big of an issue for me until … Continue reading →

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How Old Am I?

Posted on November 25, 2011 by thevenerablecorvex

If you are old enough to be reading this now, you have probably noticed that time seems to pass by much more quickly now than it did when you were a kid. Folk wisdom has it that this is because … Continue reading →

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Publish or Perish

Posted on November 24, 2011 by thevenerablecorvex

I’ve always understood this famous academic dictum, and I’ve known people who lived by it. Indeed, a former professor of mine once admitted that he deliberately published a paper with a known flaw in it, and then published a follow-up … Continue reading →

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FTL Neutrinos, Part 1: What They (Might) Mean

Posted on November 23, 2011 by thevenerablecorvex

Right, so last weak I enumerated all of the things that the apparent discovery of superluminal neutrinos definitively did not mean. Now, I will list some of the things which I think that it may mean, based purely on my … Continue reading →

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FTL Neutrinos, Part 2: What They Don’t Mean

Posted on November 19, 2011 by thevenerablecorvex

That faster-than-light neutrino still refuses to go away. Granted, this latest experiment doesn’t prove that it really is going faster than c; all that it does is disprove one proposed source of error; it is still entirely possible that some … Continue reading →

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Dumb Name; Awesome Concept

Posted on November 18, 2011 by thevenerablecorvex

So, as I mentioned in my first post a few days ago, I am (among other things) a Master’s student in theoretical physics, specializing in black hole entropy. I admit, I have been fascinated by black holes for as long … Continue reading →

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